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1] Manoa Falls - Oahu

Grab the bus for eleven dollars and prepare for around a fifty minute drive from Waikiki through the mountains. Arrive at the most beautiful Hawaiian homes, dotted up the mountain. A short walk uphill to Manoa Falls, a small but beautiful fall. This can get really crowded.

Top tip – Don’t swim in this water. It has a bacteria that will make you sick!

Note the bent bridge railing on the way in. Ten metres above ground. This is from flash floods from the river, down the mountain. You walk across a short metal bridge once that is entirely safe, but, this bent railing is a very valid reminder of the dangers of flash flooding. Go on a dry day. The trail is closed in heavy rain downfalls.

Top tip - You MUST take mosquito spray here or you will be a meal. I had forty mozzy bites here…..

2] Waimea Canyon – Kauai Mountain Range

Drive up to the highest point in Kauai, drive up through the clouds to one of the wettest places on Earth. Note there is no phone signal of any kind up here, the sun sets earlier in the canyon and it is exceptionally wet. Weather can change in a second. Look down at the floor and notice that the ground is carved by water and turns into a riverbed when wet. Impossible to climb when raining and exceptionally dangerous. Heads to the top, walk down and listen to nothing but silence. Clouds to your left, red sand and volcanic rock beneath you, rainforest to your right. I never knew the sound of quiet until I was here.

Try to come early, beat the crowds, the clouds (yes, crowds and clouds) bring your coat walking boots only and make sure you tell someone you are headed here.

There are numerous trails suitable for all walkers. This was the highest trail, at the highest point of Waimea Canyon.

Walk: Hard – For Expert Walkers – Dangerous areas found on this walk – find Family Friendly Trails – 1 resturant here and 1 fresh water source found in the only car park.

​Toilets are here too, there is only 1. Bring some loo roll, you will need it or it’s another wild jungle wee.

You laugh but this is luxury sometimes!

3] Hanalei Beach – Kauai, The Garden Island

​The most beautiful beach. Where the river meets the sea, where tiny fish swim in brackish water, where the waves are. Hanalei school ends, kids meet on the beach, climb up the climbing tree and jump into the river. Mountain views, beach, where the jungle, river and ocean meet. Paradise. Enough said.

Cold and warm areas of water combine and when swimming one second you are freezing, the next blissfully warm! Hanalei has a beautiful small community. Treat the locals and the area with great respect. Mahalo!

4] oahu - waikiki

​Where Japan and Hawaiian culture meet. You have to experience this surreal combination, everything is either English, Hawaiian or Japanese. Shops, food, culture – tourists too but bearable. Waokiki is a must.

5] DIAMOND HEAD WALK - OAHU

​Not for anyone who struggles with uphills walks in heat or lots of steps. But overall, one of the easier walks in Hawaii and by far the safest. Great views at the top of Honululu, but be prepared to sweat!

On the nineteenth mile, after road has fallen away to the cliff (yes, this is true….. half the road no longer exists) drive deeper into the jungle, both bamboo and tropical. If you are brave enough and I wanted to turn around. Look for the tiny signs, drive to mile nineteen arrive at Three Bears Falls. Hard to get too, but the most incredible waterfall I have ever seen. Sam and I were blessed to be the only ones there for some time. If you are brave enough, find the gap by the bridge, shuffle extremely carefully down the shear mud, root and tree cliff face, under the fallen tree left around the corner to the bamboo bush. There it is. The most incredible waterfall you will ever see. This is like looking at a lost world.

Note – I stood on a rock four metres high and above me there was debris from the river water another metre high caught in a tree branch. This is due to flash floods. You won’t know these are coming because immense volumes of water fall from the sky, down the mountain miles away to arrive at a fall.

Be mindful, water levels rise maybe eight metres above ground level or more. Look up when standing near a tree by a waterfall and note what is caught in branches. This is how high the water gets and a flash flood will always be unexpected!

Never stand at the edge of a fall, or underneath in the fall. It is so dangerous!

Walk: Hard – For Expert Walkers, Dangerous areas found on this walkToilets: No and no where near! Fresh Water Source: Nope. ​There are no shops here. You are in the jungle!

​7] Twin Falls - Maui

​A short walk to Twin Falls, but again this is crowded. Park where you can find a space in the tiny car park on on the road side. A short river crossing is required here. Be prepared to squat in the jungle of you need the loo. The toilets are grim. Four portable toilets here only and if you really need to go, take a deep breath before going in! It’s bad.

9] Peahi - Kauai

​A secret. Find it if you can. No spaces, no car park, no water, no shops, no tourists at all. Walk one mile when you find a place to park if you do. Walk past an eerie 8 burnt out cars along the way with sugar cane each side of you. You cannot take a car on this walk at all. You must walk.

Don’t even think about taking a compact car. This is where cars come to die.

This walk was a little unnerving for me. Respect the locals. Enough said! This is an off the map location. I will let you decide if you want to do this one!

10] Waikiki beach - oahu

​Head to the famous Waikiki Beach. Grab a drink in one of the hotels. Sit back relax, this is Hawaii.

Just how important is it to set intentions for the New Year? For me it is essential! I set them every year without fail. These intentions (or resolutions) that I set and the start of each new year, are perhaps the most important ones. These intentions set the standard for my wellbeing, my business, my personal life - everything.

This year is my Year of Growth - if you read my blog and are a regular visitor you may already know this! Allow me to explain. For the very first time in my adult life, I have complete creative freedom. After making a risky decision leaving my what was once dream design job full time, I pursued the one thing that consumed my thoughts 99% of the time. I always wanted my own creative business.

A year later I am building foundations blocks of my creative business and this year's focus is growth. What does this mean you ask? This means, not money specifically, but growth in success and skill.

Our objective should not be success. Our objective should be fulfilling our passions, our goals, attaining new skills and to enable us to do what we love every single day. For me, this has been my long-term goal for many years now and each and every day I see small changes that will lead to a bigger in my personal career, through consistent hard work. As the owner of two creative businesses and being a one-woman show, these intentions that I set at the start of the year, are perhaps the most important to ensure that I am focused in where I put my time, with one question in mind - Where do I see my future?

Ask yourself is what you’re doing right now taking you where you want to be? If it’s not that’s okay! Where do you see your future? Maybe some of my New Year Intentions will realign your own. Scale back. Take a look at your life from a distance. If you are not living your personal dream, or working that dream job don't worry. No one's life is perfect - in fact, I hate that word so much! What are the small changes now you can make to steer your path back to your dream goal? What ever it may be?

This year my focus is not so much success but personal growth through setting intentions and referring to them regularly! Weekly, daily even. I always keep my New Year Intentions somewhere visible for me to see, remember and act upon.

I hope my intentions inspire you! Have a successful year! ​

BE CONFIDENT

I am not really a huge fan of the Kardashians and frankly, I can't quite believe I am writing about them. But when I was bopping to Kanye West one day I had a thought. These icons, Kim Kardashain, Kanye, Beyonce - do you think they got to where they are know by being shy? Or reserved? No. Kim K, Beyonce - they ooze confidence. Ask yourself, what would Beyonce do? Queen B is a fav for me, but hey you - be more confident this year. You don't ask, you don't get.
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no fear

I wrote to my dream magazine to ask if they wanted to collaborate - the reply was, yes. Simple. I was sweaty, writing the email, crossed my fingers as the email whoosh into their inbox but the got a yes at the end. Do not let fear dominate your decisions. Ever.

show the world what i can do

Life is not a dress rehearsal. The time is now. Show the world what you can do. Do not worry about what other people think. Show the world what you can do.
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ADVENTURE ALWAYS

Work hard, play hard. Like dear Dumbledore said "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." The email can wait, the laundry can too. Grab your camera, your boots and get out there. My Designer husband and I are already planning the next month living in another country - we can't wait!​
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STAY TRUE

It is all too easy to compare yourself, be swept up in what we see. Stay true to your roots - do what you love. Stay true to yourself and never forget who you are.
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live from your art

Find success through my passion art, what ever I define that to be.
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SLOW DOWN, meditate more

One of my all time favourite quotes - "Will you close your eyes in order to see?"
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SURF MORE

Yewwwwww - a personal one, but I thought I would throw it in there anyway. Make sure you take time out, book in time off. Put it in your schedule!
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DRINK MORE WATER, MERMAID......

Whoops, forget my own rule, let me grab a drink!

READ MORE..... PUT THAT PHONE DOWn. Ok? k.

Raise your hand, how many books do you have that you haven't read yet. I must have around 200 that are just waiting to be read. Ouch. Read more, read more, read more.
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DO MORE YOGA

Good for the mind, body, soul. I don't need convincing. My weekly routine? 1 day of Yoga, 1 day of excercise, 1 day of rest - repeat.
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SEE NUMBERS GO UP IN THE RIGHT PLACES

Where do the numbers really matter in your life? Is it followers? Or is it how many pieces of art you made this month? Or how much time you spent just taking care of yourself? Or is it how many minutes you spent reading?

SOCIAL MEDIA FAST

What is social media really doing for you? Why do we scroll so much! No instagram, I want my thumbs back. Find me less on the gram, more on my website, so much on Pinterest and find me emailing my lovely subscribers and sending you all the good stuff!
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Smoothies Hossegor: The Green Cantine (healthy smoothies and takeaway packed lunch meals) A beautiful bamboo, white and wicker interior with the best smoothies, Try the Mango, Orange and Chia on the go.

Dinner: The Beach House is an interiors designers dream space. Think tropical, modern beach styling. With an outside seating area, palm trees, banana leaves, cocktails out of this world and the best food in France. You can't miss this restaurant in Anglet car park. Look for the light up sign hanging in the sky. Billabong just held a party here. It's the place to be. Prepare to snap some pictures in this beautiful space. Order the Malaysian chicken with white rice. Unbelievably good.

Beaches: Anglet Beaches famous for surf and at low tides check out the caves.

Dont miss: Hossegor and the outlet shops and snap up a bargain and enjoy the annual Surf Film Festival on the promenade. Discover the the enormous Roxy HQ and store next to the the skate park. Watch gromits rip it up and question your ability on a board.....

Feels like: Surf chic, discover a world of fashion that meets surfing. It you are not a surfer you are probably in the wrong place. Wear you most stylish, trashy surf wardrobe, rent a van, grab a board and take some dollar for those outlet stores.

Design: Lacking in art supply shops, the culture, the surf shops, the beaches are the inspiration. The atmosphere and the feeling. The combination of the most stylish surf shops around and fashionable boutique finds.

I am so excited to announce that I can finally send out my Productivity Pack ready for a successful New Year!

I spent nearly all of Christmas making this for my readers to learn how I do, what I do everyday. Running two creative businesses from home and being a one woman show can sometimes be tricky and over the years, there has been one thing that has been countlessly said to me, by numerous people, time after time and that question is "How do I do so much?"

This is how! I promise you, if you practise these Productivity tips, tricks and hacks you will 100% be more productive and get things done! The bonus, its totally free! Enjoy!

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Aloha 2019. The very first day, of the very first month of the New Year. One of my favourite times of year! Getting married last year, travelling to across the Islands of Hawai’i and making a huge move in my personal career made 2018 quite a year. This year however, is my ‘Year of Growth’ and it should be yours too! Time is on my side this year. It is currently hibernation station in my home, my Design Agenda notebook is at the ready and I am so ready for a year of success, smoothies and surfing.

If you don’t know me already, welcome to my Design, Branding and Business Blog. I am an Artist and Designer living, surfing and designing in the UK and have a love of all things tropical! I endeavour to always record moments in time artistically, whether it be on paper, with mixed media, in my travel journal or with the click of a camera.

Travel with me. Grow with me. Learn about Design or how to build your own business. Shop my art, apparel and salty living essentials which are scheduled to hit my online store in March 2019 and discover my online courses and free downloads live on my website very soon.

What to expect at the start of 2019? This begins with my first passion – Art. This year it is all about exploration, inspiration, growth, experimenting with new ways of working influenced by my love of female surf culture and what I know now. I want to make the most stunning collection of salty inspired works of art, apparel and accessories as part of the Spring/Summer 2019 Collection via my Etsy Store @RoseEadsDesign.

​I also can’t wait to share my Productivity Pack with you that I have made for all my readers that have signed to my Newsletter! I plan to surf into a successful New Year and help you to do the same! This is through using my top productivity hacks, tips and tricks for those looking to nail the New Year right from day one! I am a one woman show behind my business that I run from home and my perfected productivity pack helps me every day get things done!

I am so looking forward to this year and I can’t wait to share it with you! Thanks for all your ongoing support. If you want to get inspired, have a little look at my Pinterest, follow me and send me a message to say hey and join my Salty Group Board!​

As the New Year slowly approaches my thoughts turn to reflection. Like a snake shedding it's skin, evolving through growth, I wll do the same. I have some new year lifelong resolutions to share with you. My relationship with social media, with my phone, is changing. I choose to spend less time on and more time off. Less time on screens, but when I post, I will post with immense purpose.

I chose to spend more time behind a book, sketchbook, notebook, reading book. They say we find ourself in lost places. This could not be more true. The most clarity about myself and my work I had was when I lived in Hawaii for one month. With no internet throughout the day, there was nothing to check, nothing to post, nothing to send, nothing to distract me from myself. Imagine that.

We as humans spend so much time looking at others trying to find ourselves. Why? Isn't that just the strangest thing. Isn't that funny? Why do we do that? Why compare yourself? That time could be spent finding yourself.

I am me. I chose to be authentically me. Be true to myself, I dont care for fast cars, nice shoes. My favourite shoes are my walking boots. Why? Maybe because when I have them on, I know I am about to go on an adventure. Learn something new. Switch off. Maybe that's what we all should be doing, Hyperthetically, always wear our walking boots. Ready to walk openly into the next adventure. Our adventure. I chose to spend less time scrolling. More time doing. I am not going away, I am merely coming back with more purpose, Higher quality work.

I chose to honor my body, eat better, make time to eat, make time to prepare food, not rush. Slow down.

Treating my body as the sacred temple it is, bringing only gold, and purity into it's walls, eating natural foods, encoaraging positivity. Showing it respect. When tired, I will rest, not just push through and sit on a screen for another 8 hours. We find ourselves in lost places. The numbers next to your name do not matter, they are merely a factor in your life - a part of the jigsaw. The shine you see on that peice of the puzzle is not even real.

Do what you love and success will follow. My old, tired, smaller skin is shedding. I have outgrown it. Here's to quality over quantity, shedding old skin, find ourselves in lost places and my truest, oldest passion, art.

I am Rose Eads. I am a multidisciplinary Artist, Designer, Photographer and Entrepreneur. I write a Design, Business and Branding blog too and have a love of all things tropical! I endeavour to always record moments in time artistically, whether it be on paper, with mixed media, in my travel journal or with the click of a camera.Travel with me. Grow with me. Learn about Design or how to build your own business. Shop my art, apparel and salty living essentials. Discover my online courses and free downloads live on my website. Sign up to my Newsletter and join the journey......

​Join the Journey. Have a question? Ask away in the ABOUT section on my website or maybe the answer is below!

Where do you live?I live in the uk.

Where camera do you use?I use a rather well travelled Nikon D3200 or my Iphone and edit my photos using Lightroom and Photoshop.

Do you sell your art?Yes! I sell my art currently only online exclusively via my Etsy store. All my courses will sold on this website through the Learn page.

Are you open to collaborations?I love to collaborate with brands and individuals but have an extremely busy schedule! I open my books to collaborations for only a few months of the year. I work with quality in mind, not quantity.

Do you freelance for individuals or brands?Yes!I offer services in branding and identity, freelance design, content production and model for other brands in the surf/lifestyle industry!

With an average of 1500+ page views a month and 20,000+ visitors to my website each year, I am single-handedly growing my business and branding myself through hard work, research, excellent content and marketing. I also have an outreach of 82,000+ monthly visitors on my Pinterest platforms. Knowledge behind the design is my superpower!

Have you worked with or had any content published with any brands I know?I have modelled and created content in Hawaii for brand We Do Nothing. Z Flex Skateboards have republished my photography on numerous occasions to their Facebook and Instagram and I was sent a board to create content with which was a huge compliment from the longest running skateboard company. Thank you ZFlex! Coconut Bowls, Rusty Australia and Nalu Beads have all featured my photography on their social platforms to name a few brands!

How can I contact you?Contact me in the box below with an enquiry!

Where can I follow your adventures and projects?Head onto any of the social media platforms including Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and YouTube – find me @roseeadsdesign

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Designers, Creators, Videographers, Photographers - this one is for you!

I have put together this short video about how I approach a design project. This might be a personal project, a brief from a client if you are freelance, a brief with a deadline in industry or a collaboration for some modelling/photography/videography when travelling. You name it - I have done it!

With all this design knowledge and knowing that we all one started with the same questions and perhaps little know how, I bring to you in this video a few top tips about how I execute a project to completion on time, with focus and deliver more than asked for by the client. Allow me to explain to you about how YOU should approach a brief with the right 'Design Mindset'.

Eliminate distractions, have a creative clear creative space, my top productivity hacks and more! I hope these tips help you. I have written a short article to go along with this video to help you complete your next project in the link below.

Please subscribe if you like what I do and look out for E Books and Courses on my website soon to help anyone and everyone working in design. Keep on designing!

​Thanks for watching as always - Mahalo! Rose xoxo

Aloha!

Alongside the launch of my Design Mindset Youtube video, I wanted to break down a few things that I felt were important to do before you start a new project from the video. Lets get started!

I want to express the importance of having a space at home, that is like a sanctuary. A place where you can just be. A place that drives inspiration but also breathes space, without the clutter. Like the space in my video! Your creative space and mind before you start a project should be clear, to allow for inspiration to flow naturally with little distractions.You need a tidy space.

I take five minutes before I sit down to create, to tidy my physical space but also tidy my mind! Breathe - meditate. Let any passing thoughts dissolve in this meditation for a few moments and when your done, you have a clear mind to create and a clear space.

The second tip into having the right design mindset to help complete a project at complete ease is to research before you start. This is one of my favourite things to do and is essential. The question is, why wouldn’t you want to flick through magazines, moodboard and scroll through Pinterest for a few hours!?

Knowledge is power, and you need a good amount of research backing your project and supporting you work to inspire you. I dedicated a whole week this week, to reading, studying and grabbing visuals aids, for a weekend of full creativity ready to create the next collection on my Etsy. Research makes a final piece of work better and it grows your imagination and broadens your visual mind.

My third tip for aiding the right Design Mindset to help complete a project is this - eliminate distractions.

Through all the dings, bings and notifications it is easier more than ever to loose focus of your natural flow and become distracted. In my creative space, you won’t find house bills on the table, laundry on the chair or even a computer right now! Where I draw and create is free of all distractions - no checking emails during drawing time. My phone goes on silent, under my drawing stand and sometimes even on aeroplane mode…… sorry fam and friends…..

My creative space is free from ALL distractions. Self discipline is another talent to master and my fourth Design Mindset tip. If you find being on your phone is your main reason for distraction, SET A TIMER - My top hack!!! Hop on your phone, set a 5 minute timer and then when it goes off, that’s it! Be strict - your future creative self will thank you for it.

Rolling into tip number five - Create a wall of visual aids to inspire you. After doing your research, you will have probably gathered together some great images and finds that will inspire you. Now bring everything together before you start your final piece and create a visual physical creative space. Maybe a moodboard? Scrapbook? A file of found items to continue that natural creative flow, whilst you work to refer to. Your research will help you stay on track when developing your ideas in the next stage of the creative process. Fresh images and findings brought together may even trigger new ideas and new projects

I even put up pictures of my own work on my board and am my OWN inspiration - this helps me to create a clear collection of works all running with the same theme and it feels great to have my work up some where I can see it! A visual achievement on my wall!

These are just a few things that will help you with being in the right Design Mindset in order to complete a project. Watch my video in full to hear all my tips about your Design Mindset to help you complete a project.

Mahalo – Rose xoxo

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A L O H A 🌙✨ I am looking to collaborate with some influencers on Instagram, Twitter + Pinterest, to help spread the word about my latest collections of art, prints and products over the next coming months and I need you!!

Whether your a whizz with a camera, love my work, live for salty + jungle inspired interiors with a small or large following with the right demographic, I would love hear from you and form a connection.

You will receive 3 packages over a course of 6 months of my creations in the post, to enjoy and to promote to your audience as my business and brand continues to grow. Please comment on this post, or or fill out the comment form with links to your website (if you have one) or let me know your Pinterest or Twitter account and tell me a little about yourself! I look forward to connecting and collaborating!! ⚡️ Rose xoxo

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I am excited to launch my newest collection of work inspired by my time in Hawaii travelling across three islands. These islands were Oahu, Maui and Kauai. Being a surfer as well as being born and raised near the sea, I have always been inspired by the water. Most of this work is produced through both experimentation, creative eye and the inspiration from my time in Hawaii, all the things I felt and saw

Experimentation is essential in my practice. I move the paint to create colours that blend beautifully, just enough. I am almost addicted to the way these colours flow and blend. Find these limited original paintings on my Etsy today.

With so many distractions in the world today, I find its essential to work to a creative morning routine. I have shared mine in a short fifteen minute podcast highlighting what I do as an Artist and Designer before my busy day of creativity begins!

This ensures I stay productive, remain mindful and balanced, as well as finish projects to completion with a good foundation to work from, first thing in the morning. Here about it all here and now - and I promise you - this is the best version of my morning routine yet! It will really help you be your best self, before you sit down and nail that project, allowing you to focus, be calm and organised before you start your day! I hope you enjoy this.

Discover my podcast on tips, tricks, insights and analytics as well as my tips on staying productive in my other videos. Read more on the blog and discover my journey across the islands of Hawaii too all on the blog and my YouTube. Like what you see?

​Hit subscribe it would mean the world to me Rose xoxo

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